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'Cats double up on San Jose State see page 6 CALENDAR EDITORIAL FEATURES SPORTS .. CLASSIFIEDS L WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2009 WWW.WSUSIGNP0ST.COM 1 " " mn n n J za i C ' tO THE 1 934 pricuy f7Vjr v 2 0 0 9 p 4 Si mrniiia.Q f V IV U I ! t M 11 IV W JJ rV 1 i mr- - w : 1 VOL 80 ISSUE 38 L1J J . j ..j.. i.. . ,m m in - m 'Dr. Bob' suffers fatal heart attack during billiards tournament By Frances Kelsey editor-in-chief ! T?e 5gnposf Weber State University professor Robert Summers, 65, died of a heart attack on Saturday, Nov. 7 during a billiards tournament at Wildcat Lanes in the Shepherd Union Building. Summers was taken to McKay- Dee Hospital by paramedics around 11 a.m. and died just before 1 p.m. on Saturday afternoon. The WSU Billiards Club was competing against the University of Utah when Summers, the WSU advisor, sat down and said to his team 'I'm having a heart attack.' WSU club member Daniel Leish- man said he and fellow team members laid Summers down on a couch in the billiards hall, got him aspirin and kept him conscious, after calling 911. "While he was laying there, basically dying, before he couldn't talk anymore, he looked up and grabbed his number from his shirt and said 'here, give this to someone else so they can play in the pool tournament,'" Leishman said. "Just before they started to take him away, he said 'make sure to get the money out of my pool case so everyone could have pizza.'" Summers, or "Dr. Bob," as he is re- ? 1 i . . -; - - i SOUKl t: VVtBtK.EDU Robert Summers "Billows of smoke ''- - k V-i o-V" " 4 f r ilk v. HP'1" O WEBER COUNTY Billows of smoke rise to the skies after a farmer's controlled pasture burned out of control Frktoy afternoon west of Plain City in Weber County. According to Weber County dispatch records, a farmer called 9- i -1 around 1:16 p.m. after a controlled grass fire went out of control clue to a heavy wind which .fanned the flames. The fire near 5000 W. 1500 N. quickly grew to an estimated size of 60 yards wide, according to initial reports received by dispatch from the farmer. One lire engine and a brush truck from Plain City fire department responded to the scene. It took crews about 1 Vi hours to put the burn out. ferred to by his students, has been involved with the billiards club for approximately15 of the 20 years that he has been teaching at WSU. "Dr. Bob is definitely going to be missed," said former billiards club president Jacob "Preach" Dant. "Dr. Bob is the only reason I was even contemplating going to Weber. He's probably the greatest coach and instructor that anyone could ask for, he's the greatest guy that I knew up at Weber. With him gone it's going to put a hindrance on the billiards team itself, he was the reason we were even there and we got as big as we did." WSU junior Charles Barker has been playing pool for six years and said that Summers was the person who drove Barker to play professionally."He was just a really awesome guy," Barker said. "He did a lot, not only for Weber State and the billiards club, just all around he was re ally great. He's going to be impossible to replace. I guess we can all try and fill his shoes even though they're big shoes to fill. He was pretty much the reason I started playing pool as hard as See Professor page 5 "Dr. Bob is the only reason I was even going to Weber." Jacob "Preach" Dant former WSU billiards club president Working to end conflict Grassroots director Sasha Lezhnev talks to students about war over minerals By Thomas Alberts news reporter I The Signpost Currendy in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, three militias are fighting a war over the minerals sold all over the world to be put into cell phones, laptops and other electronics diat many Americans use every day. Countless people have been killed, and countless women and teenage girls have been raped as a result of this conflict.This previous Wednes day, Nov. 4, Weber State University was visited by Sasha Lezhnev. He is the executive director of the Grassroots Reconciliation Group, a non-profit organization dedicated to stopping the practice of kidnapping and recruiting child soldiers in Uganda, and helping former child soldiers have a normal life again. Lezhnev is also a consultant of the Enough Project, which hopes to cease the trade of conflict minerals in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. He is the V v 1 1 A I. ill I Bt KAMI HASVV.N .1.1 ,i . ..m Sasha Lezhnev, the executive director of the Grassroots Reconciliation Group speaks with students on Tuesday. author of the book Crafting Peace: Strategies to Deal with Warlords in Collapsing States, and worked as a consultant for the film Blood Diamond. "I was told Sasha was a great partner in this movement in the conflict mining of minerals to help end these atrocities," said Cameron Morgan, a senior majoring in psychology and president of WSU STAND, who was the chief organizer of the event. "Sasha has been great so far, I think he's a true humanitarian and I think he's a great speaker." The Enough Project helped organize and stage the event while STAND sponsored it. Fellow sponsors included the Honors Issues Forum, die Environmental Club, the Women's Center, Amnesty International, the Women's Studies department and Convocations. The event was held from noon to 1 p.m. at the Lindquist Auditorium in the Kimball Arts Building. Its purpose was to bring attention and gain supporters for the movement to stop conflict mining and slavery in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The three main organizers were Cameron Morgan, Chris Bentley, who is the former president of the Environmental Club, and Spencer Mark Hatch, who is the chair of the I lon-ors Issues Forum. Lezhnev spoke about the conflict mining of minerals See Conflict page 5 abundant Four computers stolen in less than a week at WSU Laptop thefts By Spencer Garn asst. news editor I The Signpost On the afternoon of Friday, Oct. 30 in Building 4, Mike Crapse became the first victim of four campus laptop thefts over a five-day period. "I laid on the couch and fell asleep with the computer around my neck and when I woke up a couple hours later, it was gone," Crapse said. When he first awoke, Crapse said he was upset that his laptop was gone, but he thought a friend was just playing a trick. After a frantic search produced no laptop, Crapse realized he had been robbed of his $1,000 investment."I don't really know what to think," Crapse said. "It's just like being stunned, you don't know what to do." Unfortunately for Crapse, there are no security cameras in Building 4 and there were no witnesses of the theft. Campus police are still investigating the incident. Two days after Friday's theft, police received a report that a laptop and wallet had been taken from an unattended office on the second floor of Stewart Stadium. Security cameras recorded footage of a male suspect, but police have not located the individual and do not know what connections he has with the university. Police are also investigating the theft of two laptops Z2 SI Jl iKC I: WSU I'OI K E Video surveillance photos of the man police believe is responsible for at least three laptop thefts since August. These photos were taken last Tuesday in the Union Building. taken while unattended from the Union Building ballrooms on Tuesday, Nov. 3. Each laptop was purchased for $2,500 from the Union Building budget. A large part of the budget is generated from student fees and revenues from food and merchandise sales. "We are student fee funded," said Monika Rodie, the Union Building Associate Director. "It's your student fees at work." Two replacement laptops are being ordered through campus risk management, but they won't arrive in time to be used for Tuesday's Utah Graduate Fair. To make up for the loss, two laptops will be borrowed from a computer lab. Patrol Sergeant Jim Wagner said he believes the individual responsible for the laptop theft in the Union Building is also responsible for another theft that occurred in the Kimball Visual Arts Center last August. In both crimes, See Thefts page 5 49asi

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'Cats double up on San Jose State see page 6 CALENDAR EDITORIAL FEATURES SPORTS .. CLASSIFIEDS L WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2009 WWW.WSUSIGNP0ST.COM 1 " " mn n n J za i C ' tO THE 1 934 pricuy f7Vjr v 2 0 0 9 p 4 Si mrniiia.Q f V IV U I ! t M 11 IV W JJ rV 1 i mr- - w : 1 VOL 80 ISSUE 38 L1J J . j ..j.. i.. . ,m m in - m 'Dr. Bob' suffers fatal heart attack during billiards tournament By Frances Kelsey editor-in-chief ! T?e 5gnposf Weber State University professor Robert Summers, 65, died of a heart attack on Saturday, Nov. 7 during a billiards tournament at Wildcat Lanes in the Shepherd Union Building. Summers was taken to McKay- Dee Hospital by paramedics around 11 a.m. and died just before 1 p.m. on Saturday afternoon. The WSU Billiards Club was competing against the University of Utah when Summers, the WSU advisor, sat down and said to his team 'I'm having a heart attack.' WSU club member Daniel Leish- man said he and fellow team members laid Summers down on a couch in the billiards hall, got him aspirin and kept him conscious, after calling 911. "While he was laying there, basically dying, before he couldn't talk anymore, he looked up and grabbed his number from his shirt and said 'here, give this to someone else so they can play in the pool tournament,'" Leishman said. "Just before they started to take him away, he said 'make sure to get the money out of my pool case so everyone could have pizza.'" Summers, or "Dr. Bob," as he is re- ? 1 i . . -; - - i SOUKl t: VVtBtK.EDU Robert Summers "Billows of smoke ''- - k V-i o-V" " 4 f r ilk v. HP'1" O WEBER COUNTY Billows of smoke rise to the skies after a farmer's controlled pasture burned out of control Frktoy afternoon west of Plain City in Weber County. According to Weber County dispatch records, a farmer called 9- i -1 around 1:16 p.m. after a controlled grass fire went out of control clue to a heavy wind which .fanned the flames. The fire near 5000 W. 1500 N. quickly grew to an estimated size of 60 yards wide, according to initial reports received by dispatch from the farmer. One lire engine and a brush truck from Plain City fire department responded to the scene. It took crews about 1 Vi hours to put the burn out. ferred to by his students, has been involved with the billiards club for approximately15 of the 20 years that he has been teaching at WSU. "Dr. Bob is definitely going to be missed," said former billiards club president Jacob "Preach" Dant. "Dr. Bob is the only reason I was even contemplating going to Weber. He's probably the greatest coach and instructor that anyone could ask for, he's the greatest guy that I knew up at Weber. With him gone it's going to put a hindrance on the billiards team itself, he was the reason we were even there and we got as big as we did." WSU junior Charles Barker has been playing pool for six years and said that Summers was the person who drove Barker to play professionally."He was just a really awesome guy," Barker said. "He did a lot, not only for Weber State and the billiards club, just all around he was re ally great. He's going to be impossible to replace. I guess we can all try and fill his shoes even though they're big shoes to fill. He was pretty much the reason I started playing pool as hard as See Professor page 5 "Dr. Bob is the only reason I was even going to Weber." Jacob "Preach" Dant former WSU billiards club president Working to end conflict Grassroots director Sasha Lezhnev talks to students about war over minerals By Thomas Alberts news reporter I The Signpost Currendy in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, three militias are fighting a war over the minerals sold all over the world to be put into cell phones, laptops and other electronics diat many Americans use every day. Countless people have been killed, and countless women and teenage girls have been raped as a result of this conflict.This previous Wednes day, Nov. 4, Weber State University was visited by Sasha Lezhnev. He is the executive director of the Grassroots Reconciliation Group, a non-profit organization dedicated to stopping the practice of kidnapping and recruiting child soldiers in Uganda, and helping former child soldiers have a normal life again. Lezhnev is also a consultant of the Enough Project, which hopes to cease the trade of conflict minerals in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. He is the V v 1 1 A I. ill I Bt KAMI HASVV.N .1.1 ,i . ..m Sasha Lezhnev, the executive director of the Grassroots Reconciliation Group speaks with students on Tuesday. author of the book Crafting Peace: Strategies to Deal with Warlords in Collapsing States, and worked as a consultant for the film Blood Diamond. "I was told Sasha was a great partner in this movement in the conflict mining of minerals to help end these atrocities," said Cameron Morgan, a senior majoring in psychology and president of WSU STAND, who was the chief organizer of the event. "Sasha has been great so far, I think he's a true humanitarian and I think he's a great speaker." The Enough Project helped organize and stage the event while STAND sponsored it. Fellow sponsors included the Honors Issues Forum, die Environmental Club, the Women's Center, Amnesty International, the Women's Studies department and Convocations. The event was held from noon to 1 p.m. at the Lindquist Auditorium in the Kimball Arts Building. Its purpose was to bring attention and gain supporters for the movement to stop conflict mining and slavery in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The three main organizers were Cameron Morgan, Chris Bentley, who is the former president of the Environmental Club, and Spencer Mark Hatch, who is the chair of the I lon-ors Issues Forum. Lezhnev spoke about the conflict mining of minerals See Conflict page 5 abundant Four computers stolen in less than a week at WSU Laptop thefts By Spencer Garn asst. news editor I The Signpost On the afternoon of Friday, Oct. 30 in Building 4, Mike Crapse became the first victim of four campus laptop thefts over a five-day period. "I laid on the couch and fell asleep with the computer around my neck and when I woke up a couple hours later, it was gone," Crapse said. When he first awoke, Crapse said he was upset that his laptop was gone, but he thought a friend was just playing a trick. After a frantic search produced no laptop, Crapse realized he had been robbed of his $1,000 investment."I don't really know what to think," Crapse said. "It's just like being stunned, you don't know what to do." Unfortunately for Crapse, there are no security cameras in Building 4 and there were no witnesses of the theft. Campus police are still investigating the incident. Two days after Friday's theft, police received a report that a laptop and wallet had been taken from an unattended office on the second floor of Stewart Stadium. Security cameras recorded footage of a male suspect, but police have not located the individual and do not know what connections he has with the university. Police are also investigating the theft of two laptops Z2 SI Jl iKC I: WSU I'OI K E Video surveillance photos of the man police believe is responsible for at least three laptop thefts since August. These photos were taken last Tuesday in the Union Building. taken while unattended from the Union Building ballrooms on Tuesday, Nov. 3. Each laptop was purchased for $2,500 from the Union Building budget. A large part of the budget is generated from student fees and revenues from food and merchandise sales. "We are student fee funded," said Monika Rodie, the Union Building Associate Director. "It's your student fees at work." Two replacement laptops are being ordered through campus risk management, but they won't arrive in time to be used for Tuesday's Utah Graduate Fair. To make up for the loss, two laptops will be borrowed from a computer lab. Patrol Sergeant Jim Wagner said he believes the individual responsible for the laptop theft in the Union Building is also responsible for another theft that occurred in the Kimball Visual Arts Center last August. In both crimes, See Thefts page 5 49asi